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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: keypad-*-setup
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:13:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcm1762r.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACEEGOCCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun\, 9 Sep 2007 18\:24\:23 -0700")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Really? No one knows anything about it? This is a relatively new feature
> AFAIK. 

Relaitvely yes.  5 years is a fairly short time in EDT (Emacs development time).

>        Has the developer flown the coop already?

In a sense, yes.  I've explained my reasons.

Anyway, at the moment I have barely time to follow emacs-devel and the
installed changes, but I try to keep up, so that I can return to
active development again sometime.

>
>> Would you like to figure this out by experiment, write better doc
>> strings, and send a patch?
>
> If I could have understood it, I would have offered some doc improvement. I
> don't have the time to experiment and discover what it is from scratch. If
> someone can explain it technically, I will help with the manual's wording.

There's no need to experiment.

Please take a look at the elaborate commentary in keypad.el.

Maybe you could use that information to improve on the doc strings.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-11 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-05  6:11 keypad-*-setup Drew Adams
2007-09-10  1:12 ` keypad-*-setup Richard Stallman
2007-09-10  1:24   ` keypad-*-setup Drew Adams
2007-09-10 23:54     ` keypad-*-setup Richard Stallman
2007-09-10 23:54     ` keypad-*-setup Richard Stallman
2007-09-11 12:13     ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2007-09-11 19:51       ` keypad-*-setup Drew Adams
2007-09-11 21:54         ` keypad-*-setup Kim F. Storm
2007-09-12 17:22           ` keypad-*-setup Drew Adams
2007-09-13 16:29             ` keypad-*-setup Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 22:04             ` keypad-*-setup Kim F. Storm
2007-09-17 22:30               ` keypad-*-setup Drew Adams
2007-09-18 12:25                 ` keypad-*-setup Kim F. Storm
2007-09-18 15:11                   ` keypad-*-setup Drew Adams
2007-09-18  4:16               ` keypad-*-setup tomas

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